Crossword-Solution: LOVEFEASTS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Into the Foundry Society and the many others organized among his converts, Wesley introduced lovefeasts and “bands” (or “classes”,) both familiar to him from the Fetter Lane Society, which had copied them from the Moravians.

The joiners, the weavers, the cartwrights, the smiths, the hewers of wood, the milkers of cows, the knitters, the sewers, the cooks, the washerwomen--all had their special lovefeasts.

Lovefeasts are the olive branch which we have received from the revered hands of our fathers and mothers in the faith, not to be cast away, but to be prized and kept as a mark of our love for them, for each other, and for Christ our Saviour; and though the green branch which they left us may be somewhat faded, and its leaves droop in our moistureless hands, though it has lost some of the freshness it had when it first came to our keeping, thank God! thank God! it is not dead, it lives! and can be revived.

Our Lovefeasts and sacramental services were always well attended, if it were within the range of possibility for the Indians to be present.

Daily preaching and devotional exercises in the chapels, weekly class-meetings, monthly watchnights, quarterly fasts and lovefeasts, an annual service for the renewing of the covenant, and a great multiplication of prayer-meetings, gave a special character to Methodistic piety.